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Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies

Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies is a research topic within Biomedical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 91k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the advances in breath analysis technology, particularly the use of electronic nose and sensor arrays to detect volatile organic compounds in exhaled breath for disease diagnosis, with a specific emphasis on lung cancer. The research covers various aspects such as diagnostic potential, colorimetric sensor arrays, and machine olfaction.

  • Breath Analysis
  • Electronic Nose
  • Volatile Organic Compounds
  • Disease Diagnosis
  • Sensor Array
  • Exhaled Breath
  • Lung Cancer
  • Diagnostic Potential
  • Colorimetric Sensor
  • Machine Olfaction
Research works
91k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+31%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
47% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies

Which countries lead Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (6.1k and 1.7k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 6.1k works
  2. 2 India 1.7k works
  3. 3 United States 1.6k works
  4. 4 Japan 636 works
  5. 5 Italy 559 works
  6. 6 South Korea 551 works
  7. 7 Germany 528 works
  8. 8 Russia 422 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 407 works
  10. 10 Spain 402 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 47.0%India: 13.4%United States: 12.6%Japan: 4.9%6 others listed: 22.1%47%largest
China6,101 · 47.0%India1,739 · 13.4%United States1,641 · 12.6%Japan636 · 4.9%6 others listed2,869 · 22.1%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies research, followed by Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 255 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 149 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 127 works
  4. 4 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 115 works
  5. 5 Jiangsu UniversityChina 93 works
  6. 6 Zhejiang UniversityChina 85 works
  7. 7 Jilin UniversityChina 72 works
  8. 8 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsChina 70 works
  9. 9 Northeastern UniversityChina 68 works
  10. 10 Beijing Technology and Business UniversityChina 58 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies include Zhong Lin Wang, Rob Knight and Michaël Grätzel.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  3. 3 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland 458k citations
  4. 4 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  5. 5 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
  6. 6 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  7. 7 Farshad Farzadfar Iran 298k citations
  8. 8 Luigi Ferrucci United States 281k citations
  9. 9 Frank B. Hu United States 281k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies?

The most cited paper in Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies is "Colorimetry of Total Phenolics with Phosphomolybdic-Phosphotungstic Acid Reagents" (Vernon L. Singleton, Joseph A. Rossi, 1965), with 24,756 citations. Next come "Antioxidant Determinations by the Use of a Stable Free Radical" (13,038) and "Analysis of nitrate, nitrite, and [15N]nitrate in biological fluids" (12,147).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Colorimetry of Total Phenolics with Phosphomolybdic-Phosphotungstic Acid Reagents Vernon L. Singleton, Joseph A. Rossi · American Journal of Enology and Viticulture 1965 24,756
2 Antioxidant Determinations by the Use of a Stable Free Radical Marsden S. Blois · Nature Apr 1958 13,038
3 Analysis of nitrate, nitrite, and [15N]nitrate in biological fluids Laura C. Green, David A. Wagner, Joseph A. Glogowski et al. · Analytical Biochemistry Oct 1982 12,147
4 PLS-regression: a basic tool of chemometrics Svante Wold, Michael Sjöstróm, Lennart Eriksson · Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems Oct 2001 10,019
5 Principal Component Analysis Colin R. Goodall, Ian T. Jolliffe · Technometrics Aug 1988 8,697
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies research done?

The largest centres of Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Hangzhou (China) and Guangzhou (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Jinrongjie, Jiaozuo and Zibo.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 925 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 353 works
  3. 3 HangzhouChina 249 works
  4. 4 GuangzhouChina 223 works
  5. 5 NanjingChina 216 works
  6. 6 SeoulSouth Korea 213 works
  7. 7 WuhanChina 206 works
  8. 8 TokyoJapan 203 works
  9. 9 Xi'anChina 190 works
  10. 10 TianjinChina 178 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. JinrongjieCN · 33.2 works21×
  2. JiaozuoCN · 34.7 works6.0×
  3. ZiboCN · 33.0 works5.4×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies?

Among universities, judged by research, Jiangsu University, Beijing Technology and Business University and Northeastern University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 24.26%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Jiangsu UniversityBeijing Technology a…Northeastern Univers…Jilin University
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Jiangsu UniversityChina 85.932.1%7.3×93 +68.2%
2Beijing Technology and Business UniversityChina 70.425.3%17.1×58 +92.2%
3Northeastern UniversityChina 69.121.0%4.7×68 +162.0%
4Jilin UniversityChina 66.618.4%3.9×72 +11.6%
5China University of Petroleum, East ChinaChina 66.230.7%2.9×22 +12.5%
6Henan Polytechnic UniversityChina 65.723.3%7.4×34 +84.4%
7China Agricultural UniversityChina 62.617.5%6.4×56 +76.3%
8Chongqing UniversityChina 62.522.8%2.9×50 +46.2%
9Dalian Polytechnic UniversityChina 62.523.4%10.8×30 +182.1%
10Heilongjiang UniversityChina 62.428.1%8.3×23 +62.8%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies, country by country

Is Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 31% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.087% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies9.9% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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